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Senior Centenaires they're still champions
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About 400 fans watch
25th anniversary game
The 1985-86 OHA
championship team (top, left)
showed the current
Centenaire squad (top, right)
they still have the talent of
more than 10 years ago. The
two teams squared off
Sunday in a special game
Sunday afternoon to
celebrate the team's 25th
anniversary. The old team
beat the new with a score of
4-2. Les Sieler and Don
McClure dropped the official
pucKs for Steve Mclnally and
Dave Murray, team captains
of the new and old teams,
respectively. Sieler and
McClure helped get the team
started
DAVE SCOTT PHOTOS
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
Expositor Staff
The old Cents showed the
current squad they're still
champs Sunday afternoon at
the arena.
Seaforth's 1985-86 OHA
championship junior D
hockey team doubled this
year's edition of the
Centenaires 4-2 in a fast -
paced exhibition that wasn't
decided until about six
minutes from the end.
About 400 fans took in the
reunion game, says
Centenaires' president Pete
Martene. and the majority in
the crowd seemed to be
rooting for the old guys.
now mostly in their early
30s.
"It was back and forth all
game," Martene says: "A lot
of the old team don't look a
minute out .of shape.
"Most of them are still
playing hockey."
They passed well and
seemed to play "smarter"
Sunday, Martene says,
rather than emphasizing
individual effort. He thinks
this is maybe why they won
the team's only OHA
championship in the first
place.
Dan Wesenberg's second
goal of the game, a tip -in
from in front with 5:55
remaining in the third
regulation period, ended up
deciding it.
The old guys led 1-0 after
the first, on a goal by Jerry
Wright, who shared the
team's scoring lead in the
championship season.
That first goal was
assisted by blueliner Barry
Campbell.
Goals by Marc Glanville
and Mark Van Dooren
pulled the current Seaforth
juniors into a 2-1 lead by
five minutes into the second
period, but Wesenberg's
first goal, from Kevin
Melady, evened it just past
the midway point of the
game.
TIP -IN WINS IT
Wesenberg's winner, set
up by Barry Campbell and
Wright, came with 5:55
remaining in the third.
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Mayor wishes
wan:owmobilers
'happytrails'
Council approves official route
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
Expositor Staff
.Council approved a new official snowmobile route in
and out of Seaforth last Tuesday night.
About two dozen snowmobilers were at the council's
regular meeting at Town Hall for the continuation of the
recent debate.
Mayor Dave Scott wished them "happy trails" after
council voted en approving the compromise from Iaat
month's total bait on snowinobiling
Approval was unanimous.
This latest proposal for an official trail in town, coming
from and linking with trails to the south and east, emerged
after more than 60 snowmobilers protested their proposed
banishment at council's meeting Dec. 8 •
Clerk/administrator Jack McLachlan had been directed
to prepare a bylaw completely banning snowmobiles from
town.
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in Search snake fir'
them.
They presented a list signed by 13 property owners
along the portions of George Street East and Coleman
Streets, where the route will tun..
NOT CUT CORNERS
Only a couple of these owners expressed any
reservations, beyond specifically stressing they wart
anowmobilers to stay on the trail, and not cut cornea
across private property.
The snowmobilers also came to council with Ausable-
Bayfield Conservation Authority appaval in principle for
their proper bridge, so wowmobiler stn set across:
Silver Creek into town via George Street East,
The snowmobile enthusiasts said the bridge was
ainsaib
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with reflective railings every four feet.
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bre aomon said snowmobilers had "
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have agreed to pot up and maintain sign e, p001/ 1 1,
trail and be there to address problentt, should they
The P411stidge snowmobile deltaic officially
representative from Seaforth council to become a
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Council cautious about county -wide policing
as it asks what happens to bylaws, other issues
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
Expositor Staff
Seaforth Council approves
proceeding with county-
wide Ontario Provincial
Police contract negotiations
but wants more specifics
"We agree in principle
with it," Reeve Lin Steffler
said Monday.
"County -wide policing is
not a bad thing. We need to
know that areas covered in
our previous contract would
continue."
At last Tuesday night's
meeting. council asked that
the cost -allocation approach
currently proposed by the
OPP to Huron County. then
circulated to its
municipalities, be clarified.
This approach calculates
savings to Seaforth of
$42,613. from what was
budgeted for police services
this year in town.
Seaforth actually spent less
than budgeted.
Exact savings for the town
under the new proposal
can't yet be pinpointed.
"Its a budget -to -budget
comparison," Steffler said.
But there's nothing wrong
with actual savings that
might end up in the range of
from $15,000 to S17,000, as
longus Seaforth doesn't
suffer."
Reeve Steffler is also
secretary - of Seaforth's
police services board (PSB).
Council's support for
continuing to proceed with
the county -wide approach
last Tuesday, was contingent
on OPP detachment
headquarters becoming more
central and moving to the
Huron County complex at
Vatlastra in Tuckersmith
Township, as proposed, from
Highway 21 near Goderich.
BYLAWS VARY
Council wants forthdr
clarification of how
municipal bylaws will be
enforced under a county-
wide arrangement. what the
structure and representation
will be on the police services
board that would govern the
OPP in Huron, exactly how
costs will be apportioned
among municipalities, and
what the status of Seaforth's
store -front OPP office would
be.
Council isn't clear on how
and if the bylaws of
individual member
municipalities would be
enforced.
Deputy -reeve Bill Teall,
also council's
representative
on Seaforth's
current PSB.
said if the town
had to hire its
own bylaw
officer under a
n e w
arrangement
that savings for
would be less.
and the actual
cost of policing
would be
comparable to
now.
If bylaws
differ police
could take the
line of least
resistance, Teall
suggested, and
not enforce any.
He also said in an
interview Monday that there
might be less town control
of police services in a
county -wide arrangement.
That's why council also
asked for further
clarification on governance
at last Tuesday night's
meeting - how a county-
wide police board would be
structured, and how
representation would work.
Both Steffler and Teall said
during council's discussion
last week, that as they
understand it, an area with
the population of Huron
would only be entitled to
five representatives on a
county -wide PSB under
existing provincial
legislation.
SAME OR BETTER?
Seaforth's PSB now has
three members, Teall. Bob
Dinsmore and current chair
Dick Burgess.
Council also wants the
proposed status of Seaforth's
OPP office on Main Street
detailed in black and white.
Both the reeve and deputy
reeve said they were assured
by Goderich OPP
Commander, Staff -Sgt. Gary
Martin, and
Sgt. Shawn
`The activity in
Seaforth and
Clinton does
not suggest a
compelling
policing
effectiveness
reason to
rtnaintain these
Administrator Lynn
Murray In a wrfttsn
report to County
Council
Johnson at the
last meeting
of Seaforth's
PSB that this
town's OPP
office would
be the
"equivalent of
what it has
now or better"
under the
county -wide
proposal.
"That was a
direct quote,"
Teall said.
However.
the costing
forwarded
from Huron
County to
municipalities
following its Nov. 26
county -wide OPP session
states:
"The OPP indicate the
store -front office in
Goderich is required because
of the activity. The activity
in the offices in Seaforth and
Clinton does not suggest a
compelling policing
effectiveness reason to
maintain these locations as
effective police dispatching
can occur from the
detachment office with a
community policing
location.
"Discussions with Seaforth
and Clinton need to be
undertaken. The current
costs of these offices were
not part of the Seaforth or
Clinton contracts," that
report. signed by Huron
County clerk/administrator
Lynn Murray. continues.
Clinton has indicated it
doesn't want its store -front
office if detachment
headquarters moves to
nearby Vanastra. Reeve
Steffler confirmed Monday.
ESTIMATES
A county -wide costing is
being pursued by Huron
because in 1997 the
province announced plans to
download responsibility for
policing to • some
municipalities that hadn't
directly been paying for it
until then, for instance.
townships in this area.
Wingham has already
indicated it prefers to keep
its municipal force, so the
current county costing being
considered excludes that
town. A one-time 10 per
cent Ontario offset for all
non -contract OPP policed
areas is also included in the
overall Huron equation.
The current cost -allocation
approach estimates the total
cost of policing for Seaforth
in 1999 would be $383,497 -
from $369,511 on a status -
quo contract and $13,986 for
the Main Street office.
The latter figure has
always been borne by the
town, whether municipal
force or OPP, " Reeve
Steffler says.
According to figures in the
county -wide contract being
considered, Seaforth's
projected savings works out
to 542,613, from a projected
total of 5340,884 for both
contract and non -contract
costs.
This year, Seaforth spent
5357,551 on its contract
with the OPP and an
additional 513,958 on the
Main Street office.
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